The need to access and evaluate key performance indicators (KPIs) to enable revenue growth, cost cutting and containment, product and service innovation, and risk management is driving organizations of all sizes to continue to adopt BI and analytics solutions at a rapid pace. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines the growing threat from smartphones being targeted by hackers and viruses as the devices are increasingly used for work. Hospitality giant Mitchells & Butlers talks about its migration to the cloud and the CIO of Airbus discusses his IT priorities and how he spends €500m a year on IT. 

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely inventory small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of any agent software. This paper explains how to utilize it to "map" your infrastructure for Windows 7 and Server 2008. 

Effective Desktop Management begins with knowing what you have to manage. 

Barcoding, also known as Automatic Identification (Auto ID), is a method of encoding information into a machine-readable pattern of predefined bar and space patterns that can be quickly and accurately read by a scanner and a computer. Read this white paper to learn how to incorporate barcoding into your everyday. 

<p>This expert resource guides you through case studies focusing on testing in agile development environments. Learn tips for agile testing and discover the collaboration that must take place between testers and programmers in order for automation to be successful.</p> 

Read this paper and learn why automating The Last Mile of Finance can enable your organization to meet evolving requirements and reduce risk without increasing your costs. Gain insight into why upgrading your Last Mile processes is essential to remaining in line with regulatory reporting and compliance initiatives. 

Health care facilities rely on scanning tools for their paper-based health records and medical imaging. Download the free trial of this desktop scanner connectivity solution, offering stable, secure and seamless image acquisition in hosted environments. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is renowned by network engineers worldwide, who rely on its desktop tools to monitor, discover, manage, and troubleshoot their networks. Download a free 30-day trial to explore capabilities including: monitors and alerts on availability, bandwidth utilization and network device health, and robust network diagnostics. 

This white paper highlights recent virtualisation advances that can minimise PC management expenses while heightening the security of client infrastructures. Explore the requirements for the next generation desktop and discover tools and processes that can help you meet effectively meet them.